Art James

Art James
Location
a small rural town in Western Maryland. pop 350., usa
Birthday
October 22
Title
lazy elder now.
Company
farmer
Bio
I don't know? We are what we eat. Teachers of wisdom teach the diversity of food plants have sustained humankind since we moved from the tooth and claw of the hunter-gatherer to the sooth and law of agriculture. This is the basis of all human life. We are what we eat. This is my 60th birthday party. The cut/paste photo cropped my mop of hair. I look like I had a thimble of honey wine? This is okay for a first try ... test.

Art James's Links

Salon.com

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Polecat Hollow Road

Pot Hole on my Lane

Old Open Ice Box 

Freezer Chest

Red Cap Beer Caps

Lane's gets filled up

Fill Pot Holes With Beer Caps

The First Orange Poppy Blossom

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I am just practicing

'cut & paste'

Maybe 'Skype' 

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Maybe… Read full post »

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LIFE - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 

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As late I journeyed o'er the extensive plain

Where native Otter sports his scanty stream,

Musing in torpid woe a sister's pain,  The 

Glorious prospect woke me from t… Read full post »

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This is an apology post . . .

Maybe I must blame . . .

Wild `Morel Mushrooms.

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KYRIE, PATER NOSTER,

COLLECT, BLESSINGS,

and listen to Pond Peeps.

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* I meant the three horned-

blogger named Joe Banana*

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I enjoy diverse blogger views.

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The Elm Tree by the River - Wendell Berry - or Read `The Sycamore Tree.

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Shrugging in the flight of leaves,

it is dying. Death is slowly

standing up in its trunk and branches

like a camouflaged hunter. In the night

I am wakened by… Read full post »

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The Elm Tree by the River - Wendell Berry - or Read `The Sycamore Tree.

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Shrugging in the flight of leaves,

it is dying. Death is slowly

standing up in its trunk and branches

like a camouflaged hunter. In the night

I am wakened by… Read full post »

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Praiseworthy

Colleagues who chronically fall short

We shouldn't curse, but instead anoint.

They provide no shocks, no surprises

And, bless them, they never disappoint.

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Relations

Holds a door open for an old man.

Later, gets a compliment from her boss.

Throws away a charity solicitation.

Later, m… Read full post »

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I found this  photo. It was in USA's Today.

Front Page. 

I'm on the right.

S. Bryan Wilson:

He's at my right. 

 

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Above: Vietnamese harvest. Fresh fish for market. Survival.

Below 

Local Forsythia bloom. Photo of Peasants. Hanoi, Vietnam.

(1… Read full post »


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I intended to post something else.

I changed my focus. Pause. Senyru.

My son scolds. I shall not write pew.

I must not write diarrhea on scrolls.

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Haiku: A poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived,

in which nature is linked to human nature. Usually… Read full post »

MARCH 16, 2012 7:18PM

War Dead ...

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MARCH 14, 2012 10:50AM

"CHICAGO" a Carl Sandburg poem (1916)

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Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting an eighty-three year - young and retired military career soldier.  He was with his disabled wife - She was in a wheelchair.

He was gregarious. He was likable.

He had a hat with WW-2 insignia.

That elder was so interesting.

The military… Read full post »

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the dying man

requesting to be carried

in a bright red hearse

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a florist named kooky

things flower and

plastic daffodils smell`

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The back cover of the Mother/Daughter book (see tags) reads:

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Watch your back! How to Spot and Identify Demons and Other Subversive Spirits-

And What To Do Next . . .

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Demons, fairies, and fallen angels are everywhere. They lurk at the crossroads, crouch behind doors, hide in… Read full post »

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I changed my mind.

Persian Rumi expressed a lover is close  to being a worker.

The ancient notion was a ...'ripped-open' or 'happiness' or 'one who brings that  joy of being opened' . . . that being human is  as a `Guest House' . . .

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I changed my mind.

Persian Rumi expressed a lover is close  to being a worker.

The ancient notion was a ...'ripped-open' or 'happiness' or 'one who brings that  joy of being opened' . . . that being human is  as a `Guest House' . . .

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I changed my mind.

Persian Rumi expressed a lover is close  to being a worker.

The ancient notion was a ...'ripped-open' or 'happiness' or 'one who brings that  joy of being opened' . . . that being human is  as a `Guest House' . . .

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I changed my mind.

Persian Rumi expressed a lover is close  to being a worker.

The ancient notion was a ...'ripped-open' or 'happiness' or 'one who brings that  joy of being opened' . . . that being human is  as a `Guest House' . . .

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Today was another weird day.

Yesterday we had snow squalls.

The photo is one eyed 'Kitty-Cat'

This isn't Tinkertink69. Tink.

I wandered and wondered. 

My thinking changes like the weather.

To keep thoughts simple - Here's a poem.

This i… Read full post »

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I was typing a first read comment at another Blog. Sandra W. is from Boston MA. `

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demented editor . . . unsure

if the cracking is coming 

from his feet or his knees

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Persian Poet `Hafiz

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In Santa Barbara, California

the homeless no go hungry

because they eat `Snickers'

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That's Not a`Robert H. Deluty  

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homeless . . . using

today's 'Wall Street Journal'

as a blanket

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the convict's daughter

notes as her occupation

'retired broker'

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Goofs… Read full post »

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Relations

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From broken dreams,

we wake to every day's

brave history,

the gravity

of every moment

we wake

we let our lives

inhabit:  ~

'now' 'here' 'again' 

this very day,

passionate as all

Yeats woke in old age

to hope for, the sun 

turns… Read full post »

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(I had to Relaunch two Times)

Dog's Death - by John Updike

She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.

Too young to now much, she was beginning to learn  

To use the newspaper spread on the kitchen floor 

And to win, wetting there, the… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 22, 2012 7:38AM

The Ongoing Holy War Against Evil

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Stop the killing, or

I'll kill you, you

God-damned murderer!

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(comments are now closed)

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I don't care if other folk close comments.

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Today I roamed some old stomping grounds.

The massive building is at Mercersburg, PA.

I almost worked at the beautiful academy.

I PROBABLY (keys often stick) be fired.

To be 'grounded' is to be sane/normal. 

I 'shot' photos that seem so revolting.

I am not… Read full post »

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Tags try to explain as clear as I know how . . .

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Kerry Lauerman

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guilty as sin,

counting on his cleavage

to sway one juror

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editor visits the V.A. Hospital

legless veterans stand on two feet

and take Yoga lessons and laugh

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high jump test… Read full post »

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foolish monkey?

I hope I don't embarrass  you.

I always smile when I hear the:

Local Red WoodPecker peck.

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She lives around my Place.

She pecks dead trees too.

She laughs like a Monkey.

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I was knocked off here earlier. I always smile. But,… Read full post »